the grim reeper

These are not mine but a friends and he's gone back to standards, they had only done 20,000 miles, luckly his wife complained about a noise coming from the car as the cup had fell down and touching the tyre. Good job it had not failed on a motorway at high speed as it could have been fatal:eek: Not had the chance to check mine yet but will be doing so Cheers Phil

Here's some photos of this failure

Thank you i'll pass that on and see what happens Cheers Phil

Talking to a UK A2 forum member today and he said that the NSF(Drivers side for you guys) strutt failed on his car about 8 weeks ago. He explained that the lower spring cup had just about rotten through all the way round, the failure happened as 2 thirds of the spring cup had failed resulting in the hole thing lowering itself down onto the tyre and scrubbing the inside edge down to the threads. Now haven't these got a lifetime warranty ??and who would you contact the place you got them or Koni ?? Just something to start checking for when we swap them winter tyres off come spring. His are 5 years old Cheers Phil

Here's the link to the thread Complete open-sky for sale!!! - Audi A2 Owners' Club Phil

He as yet hasn't done a build thread on the UK page so this is all there is at the moment. I think the other 1.8t that was done on here (German site) had to be de-tunned to 190 bhp ???? where this one when he's finnished is hoping for about 250 BHP. Will post a link as soon as he posts one Cheers Phil

Here's a link to someone's Flickr page this should load up a photo of the A2 coming round the last corner All sizes | ANN_9381 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Phil

He's not tried the top speed yet as i said he's got some stuff to do like bigger brakes plus bigger intercooler still trying to get some photos (not my car and i was filming from inside) so here's a couple that i do have, the first photo its the grey one you can see the intercooler in the lower grill On the track i think we got up to 120 mph Phil

Here is 3 Youtube video links of an Audi A2 with a 1.8Turbo 225BHP. It was filmed at Audi Driver International 2010 at Castle Combe race track UK all in all it was 22 minutes long but Youtube only allow 10 minutes so i had to cut it into 3 videos Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The car is UK road legal and is used daily, the project is still ongoing he's still got a few things to do Enjoy Phil:D

Added somemore photos, the ET is 35 I kept the SE rear springs as i have a large dog with me most of the time in the back Cheers Phil

They are 17" 7.5J with 215/40/17 yoko Sdrive tyres on. Wheels are Rline RV02 Car has STD SE rear springs Cheers Phil